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Author : Leslie Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781118291887
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (918 download)
Download or read book African American Voices written by Leslie Brown and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Features a diverse range of voices that cut across class and political affiliations as well as across regions and generations"--
Author : Deborah Gillan Straub
Publisher : Uxl
ISBN 13 : 9780810394971
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (949 download)
Download or read book African American Voices written by Deborah Gillan Straub and published by Uxl. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from speeches by thirty-six personalities--including Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Clarence Thomas--give a wide range of perspectives on events, issues, and movements in African American history
Author : Gayl Jones
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674530249
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Liberating Voices written by Gayl Jones and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful novelist here turns penetrating critic, giving usâe"in lively styleâe"both trenchant literary analysis and fresh insight on the art of writing. âeoeWhen African American writers began to trust the literary possibilities of their own verbal and musical creations,âe writes Gayl Jones, they began to transform the European and European American models, and to gain greater artistic sovereignty.âe The vitality of African American literature derives from its incorporation of traditional oral forms: folktales, riddles, idiom, jazz rhythms, spirituals, and blues. Jones traces the development of this literature as African American writers, celebrating their oral heritage, developed distinctive literary forms. The twentieth century saw a new confidence and deliberateness in African American work: the move from surface use of dialect to articulation of a genuine black voice; the move from blacks portrayed for a white audience to characterization relieved of the need to justify. Innovative writingâe"such as Charles Waddell Chesnuttâe(tm)s depiction of black folk culture, Langston Hughesâe(tm)s poetic use of blues, and Amiri Barakaâe(tm)s recreation of the short story as a jazz pieceâe"redefined Western literary tradition. For Jones, literary technique is never far removed from its social and political implications. She documents how literary form is inherently and intensely national, and shows how the European monopoly on acceptable forms for literary art stifled American writers both black and white. Jones is especially eloquent in describing the dilemma of the African American writers: to write from their roots yet retain a universal voice; to merge the power and fluidity of oral tradition with the structure needed for written presentation. With this work Gayl Jones has added a new dimension to African American literary history.
Author : Walton Arts Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974431406
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Images of America written by Walton Arts Center and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780817308483
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Lift Every Voice written by Philip Sheldon Foner and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology comprising 150-plus selections, making accessible the orations of both well-known and lesser-known African Americans. Each speech is presented with an introduction that sets the context. Many are previously unpublished, uncollected, or long out of print. The volume is based on Philip Foner's 1972 Voice of Black America. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book African American Voices: A-J written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Gillan Straub
Publisher : UXL
ISBN 13 : 9780810394995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (949 download)
Download or read book African American Voices: K-Z written by Deborah Gillan Straub and published by UXL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Almanac features historical and current information on African American life and culture. Biography profiles hundreds of notable African Americans. Breakthroughs provides fascinating details on hundreds of milestones involving African Americans. Chronology features significant milestones in all aspects of African American history beginning in 1492. Voices contains 35 full or excerpted speeches and other notable spoken words of African Americans.
Author : Ricky K. Green
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820472997
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Voices in Black Political Thought written by Ricky K. Green and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black community has historically suffered stasis on the political level. W.E.B. Du Bois originally identified the source of the stasis as a contradiction of political goals within individuals and Black culture. During the last century, the development of African American political organizations has institutionalized this «contradiction of double aims». That institutionalization is largely due to the energy and resources of two distinct and often contradicting political traditions - Black nationalism and the Black American Jeremiad. It is within a third tradition, Black cultural pluralism, that a possible discourse exists that can address the stasis within the Black community. This book attempts to reconstruct the development of this third tradition and posits it as the most viable source of Black political development.
Author : Steven Mintz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405182679
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book African American Voices written by Steven Mintz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective. Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters by African Americans that document the experience of bondage Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement the written documents Includes an extensive bibliography and bibliographic essay
Author : Lionel C. Bascom
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313343513
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Voices of the African American Experience written by Lionel C. Bascom and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2009 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From early accounts of free blacks in the Colonies to slave narratives recorded by Works Progress Administration employees in the 1930s to a recent speech by Senator Barack Obama, this collection offers a primary documents from and concerning African Americans. Examples include speeches, articles, mission statements, ephemera, testimony, letters, sermons, prayers, spirituals/songs, slave narratives, memoirs, essays, interviews, and more.
Author : CHARLES E. BECKNELL SR PHD
Publisher : Page Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781645847533
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Voices from the African American Village written by CHARLES E. BECKNELL SR PHD and published by Page Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many African Americans who grew up in the pre-civil rights era, the segregated community was usually referred to as a village. This was the origination of the phrase, "It takes a village to raise a child." The voices that came out of the village were voices that are now becoming diminished. These voices helped to keep the culture intact. The voices from the elderly, the parents, the church, and the community-provided discipline, hope, pride, and integrity for the inhabitants. Many may feel that some of the messages were crude or inappropriate, but we have to take into account the lack of educational opportunities during this time. This book attempts to capture the messages that we need to not only remember, but respect. These voices helped us to survive racism and discrimination. The voices of the village are still relevant today and should not be forgotten.
Author : Karen Patricia Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book African-American Voices in Young Adult Literature written by Karen Patricia Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen contributions by Smith (library and information studies, Queens College) and other scholars discuss African-American young adult literature. A sampling of topics includes periodical literature for African-American young adults, supernatural African themes in horror literature, and positive images of African-American fathers in young adult literature. The volume concludes with a study analyzing trends in the publication of contemporary African-American young adult literature. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Charles E. E Becknell Sr. PhD
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1645847527
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Voices from the African American Village written by Charles E. E Becknell Sr. PhD and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many African Americans who grew up in the pre-civil rights era, the segregated community was usually referred to as a village. This was the origination of the phrase, "It takes a village to raise a child." The voices that came out of the village were voices that are now becoming diminished. These voices helped to keep the culture intact. The voices from the elderly, the parents, the church, and the community-provided discipline, hope, pride, and integrity for the inhabitants. Many may feel that some of the messages were crude or inappropriate, but we have to take into account the lack of educational opportunities during this time. This book attempts to capture the messages that we need to not only remember, but respect. These voices helped us to survive racism and discrimination. The voices of the village are still relevant today and should not be forgotten.
Author : Michele Stepto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781562944742
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (447 download)
Download or read book African-American Voices written by Michele Stepto and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings by such authors as W.E.B. DuBois, Toni Morrison, Rita Dove, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, exploring the connections of circle, veil, water, and song that link past and present African American cultures.
Author : Yvonne Johnson
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Voices of African American Women written by Yvonne Johnson and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last half of the twentieth century, a group of historically neglected but extremely powerful voices has emerged from the African American literary tradition. The voices of African American women have gathered strength from the suppressed tongues of their foremothers to provide insight into the history, psyche, and spirit of the African American woman. Professor Johnson examines the narrative strategies, with particular emphasis on the authorial and narrative voices, of three texts written by African American women: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and The Color Purple by Alice Walker.
Author : Denise Marie Glover
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 9780838906392
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Voices of the Spirit written by Denise Marie Glover and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a selection of African-American voices, describing written works, oral history, photographs and moving images. Sources from 1883 to the 1990s are annotated and discussed, and are aimed at showing more of the African-American experience than is often portrayed in the mass media.
Author : Abraham Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780847980734
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Black Voices written by Abraham Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
